72. Favorite.

Best wishes to you and your wife and family.

For our family, we are grateful that the so-called "Obamacare" allows for our 21-year-old daughter to remain covered under our policy. She attends college part-time, and for that reason was excluded. Not any more!

Also, her part-time job offers no healthcare plan, which is typical.

No one cared before that her reasons for doing all of this "part-time" work is because she is also pursuing a career in ballet
-- which requires amazing dedication, focus, strength and grace 24/7, 365 at hours a day.

I've been upset with Obama for a number of things, but I am grateful that our daughter has healthcare.

29. Yeah--there's also a big difference between chronic and gradual blood loss/anemia

in which one's body develops some compensations, and suddenly being down a few quarts and losing all that fluid volume and oxygen-carrying capacity at once. Same lab numbers, very different possible effects (feeling like boiled crap vs. MI/shock).

42. Oh wow! Serious?

53. I don't feel any sympathy for them either.

If it's one thing that the Republicans have taught me, and taught me well, it is that the Democrats have to be willing to fight as dirty as the Republicans do in order to win.

Whenever a political candidate brings a personal issue to a public venue, then that issue becomes a public issue. The Santorums have publicly talked about this very private issue, so they must be trying to use it for political gain; therefore, it becomes political fodder.

13. I thought he (santorum) was the Jesus Candidate.

That isn't very Jesus-like.

Ya know, I don't understand how ordinary people can listen to these sick a$$hole$ telling them if they get sick and can't afford care - tough shit - all the while, knowing these sick a$$hole$ have access to affordable health care insurance, and yet STILL support and vote these over priviledged bastards.

26. Santorum's disabled child is to blame for its pre-existing condition

Sperm should have run in the opposite direction to avoid egg. Fact that it didn't, and the parents decided to go forward with the pregnancy clearly indicates they knew of the pre-existing condition and ignored the knowledge. THUS, No health care. Case closed.

What morans.

Like you Will, when these matters hit home, when these politicians are attacking our own, I get mad. I feel rage. This becomes my default setting towards these unfeeling monsters.
Good for you to come out swinging in defense of your loved ones!

38. Off topic, but...

University of Iowa researchers, using an innovative therapy involving intensive nutrition, progressive exercise, and neuromuscular stimulation, have observed evidence of improvement in patients with secondary progressive multiple sclerosis (SPMS).

This treatment approach, described as radical by the researchers, was selected as a "Hot Topic" at the Neuroscience 2011 annual meeting, presented by the Society for Neuroscience and held this week in Washington, D.C. Babita Bisht (photo, right), a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Health and Human Physiology in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, is the first study author and presented the research Sunday afternoon at the meeting.

Terry Wahls, a clinical professor of internal medicine at the UI Carver College of Medicine and the Iowa City VA Medical Center, is the senior study author and living proof of the effectiveness of this treatment plan. Wahls was diagnosed with SPMS in 2003 and soon became dependent upon a tilt-recline wheelchair. After developing and using this protocol, she is now able to walk through the hospital and commute to work by bicycle.

39. Thanks!

40. Are you begining to see why I hope Santorum wins the nomination?

The more he stands on his soapbox and shills for his corprate masters. The more he stands at the paupet and brags the wonders of his vengfull cloud being. The more he preaches that his and only his is the way to the light.
The more easely it can be seen what a shallow, hollow, pathetic little man Santorum is.
A man who doubts his own convictions to a point that he must accept the convictions of his masters.
A simp who doubts his fellow man.
A pathetic smoke wisp doubting even his own masculinety.
A frightened child, cowering in a corner awaiting the wrath of his god simpley because he allowed his own wife to live.
Easly seen as a circus parson, takeing the center ring only to fill his pockets and hide his own inadquities.

He convinces me that I am not a true christan; for I can not pity him.

43. That is some low-life shit...

44. What's scary about this is -- People actually support his views

that is the scariest part. It's not what he says, cause he says some crazy ass things, always has, always will (I think psych eval is in order for him) but people who claim they'd vote for this clown with all the shit that spews from him. They are the real problem.

51. He's a stinking bag of fuck alright...knr

54. Santorum is a moral and intellectual bankrupt,

an ambulatory turd that fouls the earth with his every utterance. He deserves every bit of whatever misery he has experienced or will experience in his life. He is an evil waste of perfectly good oxygen.

61. People who think like this should be punished. Hunted down and punished.

62. Well fucking said, my friend! Having been long aware ...

of your wife's courageous battle; I will tell you that when I read Santorum's comments, my thoughts eventually turned to you. I initially considered my own cancer-surving ass (14 years and counting), and wanted to lash back at Ricky. But the simple fact is, while I may be a wordy sonofabitch, I am no William Rivers Fucking Pitt. Your heart, soul, and erudition made our point better than I could have hoped to do. (Although, as a former combat infantryman, I think you could have used a few more "fucks".)
In any case, thanks, Will. And please, keep on doing what you do.

70. sorry to hear of your wife's illness, William; wish her & you ~ the Best.

on another note: shit-spawn like Rick 'Torum, Huckster-b & the rest of the effluvia that make up the current population of the anal orifice that is the GOP -- is the reason that revolution was invented by desperate beings, trying to sustain their families. hopefully, you & i will get to see the day when Nature flushes this effluvia down the black hole they belong in.

74. This fellow MSer agrees and I'm happy to be the 100th rec!

And yeah, go fuck yourself Rick. I had no fucking choice to make when it came to getting MS. You did, however, have a choice to be a decent human being or a stupid fucking moronic, bigoted, total asshole. Too bad you chose the latter.